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This list is under construction. It will contain drawings and even more usefull stuff for people that want to start! Youtube channels to follow https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI6ASwT150rendNc5ytYYrQ https://www.youtube.com/user/nocrf50here https://www.youtube.com/user/hooptejoe as 3 of them. The first is mine. Small setup 12V 100w solar panel: https://goo.gl/jfSyrn Smaller charger: https://goo.gl/YzHPYV MC4 incl cable […]

Sonoff POW setup with the Grafana/Raspberry image Gear that can be purchased: Sonoff mixed search on Ebay: https://goo.gl/PHjssZ Sonoff the one used in the video and that I use: https://goo.gl/p6xuaH FTDI adapter: https://goo.gl/PrGULv Wires to adapter: https://goo.gl/4oHTuu Header pins: https://goo.gl/gvpxHz Link on how to install the Tasmota software Code used in […]

Spot fake 18650 cells How do we spot fake cells? I recommend to check above video. 43-48gram in general 1500-3400mAh are nominal capacities to be found Max current around 20A. But those have less capacity in general and are expensive Price from 2USD/2EUR and upwards. Easily 4EUR. Check […]

ATS – Automatically switch between solar/generator and main incoming grid power Let us work with our automatic transfer switch Read through this When working with automatic transfer switches there are a couple of things to consider. Firstly if you are going to break the neutral or not […]

Build battery and fuse panel In this video i show you how i did to create my own breaker and fuse panel for my main battery bank including voltage meters. Working with large scale system like this then proper rated fuses and breakers are a must. AC and DC […]

Measure grid consumption – Raspbery pie In this video i go through how I hook up my energy meters for measure the energy consumption. Both sold and bought from grid. This is how its hooked up to the RS485 device: Build it Building this setup is easy. Modbus protocol […]

Ebat battery review In this quick article i will show the result of the tests of the Ebat batteries I have done. Links in bottom of page. Equipment and test scenarios Icharger Duo 308 for testing capacity Flir I7 to meassure the temperature of the cell Logger on PC for […]

Get your Raspberry PI up and running to visualize your solar system with Grafana, MQTT and Node Red! Its important to understand that this is not magic stuff that will create all this wonderfull graphs for you! It will need you to do some work and also have some knowledge […]

My solar layout in Esperyd This page containts the layout of my solar system in Esperyd. It also contains details about how i process my cells. Current system consist of: 66x 260w solar panels 80kWh of LiFePo4 18650 recycled cells -> 4 rows of 16s300p 30kWh of Li-ion Laptop […]